Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2022

” Key Findings: · Ecological threats, such as rapid population growth, water risk, and food insecurity will be exacerbated by climate change, causing mass migration and conflict. · Food stress. More than half of those monitored in this latest edition are said to face “extreme ecological threat.” More than 1.4

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Africa Climate change Pollution Resilience 130

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Europe’s leading farming lobby group Copa-Cogeca has used the war in Ukraine as a pretext to push back behind the scenes against flagship EU laws to protect nature, DeSmog can reveal. Campaign groups say these food scarcity narratives are cynical — and familiar. If insects disappear, the food supply disappears.

Agriculture 91

Agriculture Europe Biodiversity Law 91

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Africa 82

Africa Agriculture Health Investment 82

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Documents seen by DeSmog and the Guardian show that the meat industry is poised to “tell its story and tell it well” in the lead up and during the Dubai conference, which comes on the heels of the world’s hottest ever year. One says it will “push” the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to host “positive livestock content” at COP28.

Agriculture 141

Agriculture Methane Climate change Government 141

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

Mussels get their food by filtering seawater, sieving out plankton and other nutritious particles and flushing out unwanted particles from their digestive systems. The experiments showed that a cluster of 300 mussels (5 kg) could filter out over 250,000 microplastics per hour.

Microplastics 130

Microplastics Plastics Biodiversity Recycling 130

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Using real world data from 2019, the paper sets out the opportunity for massively improving the climate benefits of recycling food waste to produce renewable energy and green fertiliser for farmers. Using Malaby Biogas’s operational data, Bath’s paper was able to show that in 2019 Malaby Biogas saved around 2,000 tonnes of CO2.

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Carbon Carbon-negative Waste Waste 264

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

We, African women on the front line, fear that the expansion of oil, coal, and especially gas will only reproduce historic inequalities, militarism, and war patterns. Evidence and our experience show that women and girls are among those disproportionately impacted by climate change. To pretend otherwise is to ensure our destruction.

Fossil fuels 87

Fossil fuels Climate change Africa Natural gas 87

Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2020

The UK proved to be an exception, however, with the poll results released yesterday showing Britons harbour greater worries over the risk of disease and pandemics than they do with regards to the growing impacts of climate change. Other issues named by respondents include poverty, recession and lack of food/water.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Health Energy 96

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

As Europe wrangles over its strategy for stopping fossil fuel imports from Russia to starve Putin’s war effort, supermarkets including Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Morrisons, and Asda have all made public statements of support for Ukraine. Complex Process’.

Retail 74

Retail Fossil fuels Ethics Government 74

Planet Pulse

APRIL 12, 2023

Analysts at NASA Harvest have been tracking the impact on agriculture in Ukraine since the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Their latest study (re-posted in full from NASA Earth Observatory) shows that farmers have harvested 26.6 Dream Big : Polícia Federal do Brasil & Santiago e Cintra Consultoria Ltda.

Energy Monitor 52

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Agriculture Government 52

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower greenhouse gas pollution. Arbitrary Targets Are Not The Solution’.

Europe 93

Europe Sustainability Agriculture Biodiversity 93

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Green Dot system is just one of these, where manufacturers and retailers pay for a green sticker on products, showing that a fee has been paid to fund its recycling. It’s clear that the country is working to follow all three R’s of reduce, reuse and recycle, as numbers show has both low waste production, and recovery rates of 93%.

Waste 248

Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 248

Business Green

MAY 26, 2022

Every year, an estimated one-third of all food produced in the world - about 1.3 The emissions related to food waste are equivalent to an estimated 3.3. billion tons of CO2 , making food waste the third largest driver of greenhouse gas emissions. For Choco, the key to building a better food system lies in the data.

Waste 44

Waste Waste Startups Agriculture 44

Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

With the backdrop of war in Ukraine and a global energy crisis, expectations going into this year’s conference, held in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, were decidedly low. This should give Canada’s federal and provincial governments much food for thought. What can we take away from its 27th iteration? warming limit set by the Paris Agreement.

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COP Energy Energy Climate change 82

Business Green

MAY 16, 2022

The world cannot lose sight of the urgent need to tackle the climate crisis amid soaring energy costs and Russia's brutal war in Ukraine, COP26 President Alok Sharma has warned this morning, arguing that a failure to honour the commitments made at last year's Glasgow Summit would be "an act of monstrous self-harm". War has returned to Europe.

Fossil fuels 73

Fossil fuels Energy Energy Government 73

Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

The costs of war keep adding up. Not only is Russia's invasion of Ukraine triggering a humanitarian crisis and reigniting the Cold War, it is also sending shock waves through the global economy and forcing governments and businesses alike to rethink their long term plans.

Soil 36

Soil Agriculture Government Sustainability 36

Business Green

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Farming is a massive part of that - it's nearly 60 per cent of the food we all consume, renewable energy for 10 million homes, custodians of 70 per cent of our land, and of course four million jobs. We can't lose sight of food production. We need that contribution and we need sustainable food production.

Sustainability 68

Sustainability Government Politics Resilience 68

Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

Show me the art of the possible, and then we can build a rapid feedback loop between industry and government. Reporter Meg Kelly from The Washington Post was able to report on atrocities happening in Tigre, Ethiopia and reveal details of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The conversation focused on how the remote sensing industry and the U.S.

Building Energy Monitoring 104

Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 104

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

Tatiana Sakharuk, executive director of Global Compact Network Ukraine, a United Nations initiative, said their attendance showed Russia was “looking for more opportunities to get easy money to be able to terrorise the whole world further.”. They are complicit in Russia’s war crimes.”.

Fossil fuels 76

Fossil fuels Government Climate change Hydropower 76

Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Major report warns society is waging a 'war on nature' and calls for all-society push to combat escalating planetary emergency. For too long, we have been waging a senseless and suicidal war on nature," he will say. The result is three interlinked environmental crises. million deaths from air pollution each year worldwide, 1.8

Investment 49

Investment Biodiversity Fossil fuels Pollution 49

Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

The report also calls on the government to establish a "clear and realistic plan" to ensure farmers take part in the new regime and different government bodies understand their roles, arguing that the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) has "made a mess" of previous reforms to agricultural support.

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Government Agriculture Policy Politics 87

Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Terra Fondriest via FERN As early as the 1950s, however, ranchers began to notice tall fescue’s disturbing effects: One study showed that cattle had to be fenced out of other grasses before they’d touch fescue.

Soil 140

Soil Cooling Climate change Agriculture 140

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The announcements from the shadow cabinet in the past few days and in Starmer's speech show that Labour understands this. I will never accept that the war is an excuse for how unprepared Britain was to tackle the fallout," he said. The war didn't ban onshore wind. The war didn't scrap home insulation.

Energy 69

Energy Energy Nuclear Power Fossil fuels 69

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 4, 2024

Climate advocates said that giving green accolades to companies who continue to produce adverts and public relations campaigns for major polluters undermines the credibility of Ad Net Zero, an advertising industry body formed in 2020 amid a broader push by the business world to show it was serious about tackling the climate crisis.

Fossil fuels 123

Fossil fuels Pollution Plastics Sustainability 123

Business Green

APRIL 15, 2021

This presents a unique challenge to farmers who need to maintain productivity and profitability from their core activity as food producers whilst also navigating changes in support levels and regulations post Brexit.". Government, regulators and consumers are increasing demands to implement sustainable practices to reduce emissions.

Business Energy Monitoring 86

Business Energy Monitoring Agriculture Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 86

Business Green

AUGUST 23, 2022

A storm of disruptions - the Covid-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and climate change - have already demonstrated what can happen when events block that flow. As recent analysis grimly shows, all global cotton growing regions will be exposed to increased risk from at least one climate hazard by 2040.

Resilience 82

Resilience Agriculture Climate change Transportation 82

Low Impact

MAY 30, 2021

All the crises from Covid to unemployment and war – what drives it all? But it’s the base of the food chain, that everything else depends on. People growing food etc. I heard a lecture once by a woman who was mesmerised by the ability of slime mould to get food and occupy its niche in the world. It’s absolutely true.

Biodiversity 82

Biodiversity Climate change Sustainability Waste 82

DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

The aquaculture market is booming and is the fastest-growing food sector in the world right now. I will also keep an eye on how Europe responds to the re-energizing of the fracking boom in the United States due to the war in Ukraine, and whether or not Europe chooses to drill, and even frack their own resources. But there’s a hitch.

Carbon-negative 87

Carbon-negative Carbon Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral 87

AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 12, 2019

Meat giant Tyson’s latest earnings reveal it’s not them, with the US-China trade war largely to blame. Could they lose out to alternatives like Impossible Foods? AFN has reached out to Tyson Foods and Chinese pork giant WH Group for additional comment. A worldwide pork deficit is impending and one virus is to blame.

Demand 52

Demand Asia Health Biotechnology 52

Planet Pulse

APRIL 30, 2021

May marks the start of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage (AAPI) Month and to celebrate and show our support for this community, we’re engaging in these self-guided learning opportunities throughout the month. And How do we preserve the legacy of Asian food in America, and why do these efforts matter now?

Resilience 97

Resilience Health 97

AGreenLiving

JULY 10, 2020

20 must-read books about food systems Danielle Nierenberg Fri, 07/10/2020 – 00:50 With record high unemployment , a reeling global economy and concerns of food shortages , the world as we know it is changing. ” Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C.”

Climate change 28

Climate change Politics Biodiversity Agriculture 28

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Climate targets were under threat from all sides with climate science deniers, politicians and media platforms exploiting the war in Ukraine and ensuing energy crisis to demand an increase in fossil fuel extraction. It was a tough year for the green transition. Plenty for DeSmog to get stuck into, in summary. Who doesn’t like a DeSmog map?

Fossil fuels 70

Fossil fuels Global warming Natural gas Climate change 70

Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

If you show why and make it easy, they’ll buy. Poor neighborhoods have a right to local, healthy, organic food.”. “50 Show how you create jobs, economic growth, and entrepreneurial success stories. Many successful green-company CEOs, including Whole Foods founder John Mackey, identify as libertarian/conservative.

Sustainability 78

Sustainability Climate change Organic Waste 78

Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Environment Minister Lord Goldsmith spent part of this weekend in a characteristically combative mood on Twitter, flat rejecting accusations the government was willing to undermine food and environmental standards in pursuit of a US trade deal. All food coming into this country is required to meet the UK's import standards," it said.

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Government Law Policy Agriculture 54

Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This has been due in no so small part to the war in Ukraine and the significant disruption to energy and food supplies. As a new Green Alliance report shows circular supply chains have real economic benefits. 2022 has been a year of economic highs - high commodity prices, record energy prices, and rocketing inflation.

Packaging 36

Packaging Resilience Plastics Europe 36

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

For example, the report shows how global EV sales doubled in 2021 compared to the previous year, reaching a new record of 6.6 million in total and accounting for nine per cent of all new car sales worldwide.

Energy Monitor 69

Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 69

Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

Without urgent action, UK businesses and consumers therefore face the increasing likelihood of resource shortages and scarcity on supermarket shelves, leading to rising food, energy, housing, insurance, and tax costs that also could harm the Treasury's own finances in the long-run, the report added.

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Government Business Energy Monitoring Resilience Energy Monitor 61